[antiRepublicrat]

My original point was that people who are NOT being taught how to use the most common operating system in the world are being given a poor education.

And UNIX is a very common OS in many engineering fields. It's also very common in CAD, 3D animation, mainframes and supercomputers (the last two of which Windows knowledge will be of no use).

instead of calling upon engineers whose career and specialty IS programming UNIX boxes.

And a lot of them gained that speciality because of having to rebuild and customize their tools. Like I gave Cliff Stoll as a prime, famous example, but your Microsoft-centered brain probably doesn't know who he is.

[RS]

"Like I gave Cliff Stoll as a prime, famous example, but your Microsoft-centered brain probably doesn't know who he is."

One has to wonder if Stoll would have still been an astronomer if his grant money had not run out...

but nevertheless, do you deny that by far and away the most used OS in the real world for real workers is a Microsoft product ?

Where ever my brain is centered these days, it does not change the FACT that most people who use a computer will sit in front of a machine running some Microsoft product.

Most cars on the road have the steering wheel on the left side .... would you think a school was doing its students a disservice they taught on right-hand drive cars ?